Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, this never gets old...no matter how many times i read it.
<b>There are two kinds of soldiers.
Snipers...and targets.</b>
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| Author: | 30mike-mike [ 04 Jan 2006, 05:24 ] |
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(Per the Keith Black Website) One top fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows of stock cars at the Daytona 500. Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1-1/2 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced. A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the dragster's supercharger. With 3,000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle. At the stoichiometric (stoichiometry: methodology and technology by which quantities of reactants and products in chemical reactions are determined) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture of nitro methane, the flame front temperature measures 7,050 deg F. Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases. Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder. Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After halfway, the engine is dieseling from compression, plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1,400 deg F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow. If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half. In order to exceed 300 mph in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4G's. In order to reach 200 mph (well before half-track), the launch acceleration approaches 8G's. Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have completed reading this sentence. Top fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light! Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load. The redline is actually quite high at 9,500 rpm. Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimate $1,000.00 per second. The current top fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter mile (10/05/03, Tony Schumacher). The top speed record is 333.00 mph (533 km/h) as measured over the last 66' of the run (09/28/03 Doug Kalitta). Putting all of this into perspective, picture this scenario: You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter "twin-turbo" powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile up the road, a top fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line and pass the dragster at an honest 200 mph. The "tree" goes green for both of you at that moment. The dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and within 3 seconds, the dragster catches and passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a quarter mile away from where you just passed him. Think about it, from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1,320 foot long race course. ... and that my friend, is ACCELERATION! <img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle> "Pilots Without Maintainers are Just Pedestrians With Leather Jackets and Cool Sunglasses." |
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| Author: | M21 Sniper [ 04 Jan 2006, 08:09 ] |
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, this never gets old...no matter how many times i read it.
<b>There are two kinds of soldiers. Snipers...and targets.</b> <img src="http://www.creedmoorsports.com/images/SA9121-M21.JPG" border=0> |
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| Author: | 44hollowpoint [ 04 Jan 2006, 08:11 ] |
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LOL - OK, you beat the Bugatti <img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>... <BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote> ROTFLMAO... You're born, you keep your head down and you die. If you're lucky... |
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| Author: | 30mike-mike [ 04 Jan 2006, 09:12 ] |
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In a perfect world:<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>NOTHING BLOWS UP<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>And nobody shows up at auto races anymore with their mobid sense of expectant foreboding. "Pilots Without Maintainers are Just Pedestrians With Leather Jackets and Cool Sunglasses." |
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| Author: | 44hollowpoint [ 04 Jan 2006, 09:31 ] |
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<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>And nobody shows up at auto races anymore with their mobid sense of expectant foreboding. <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote> LOL, I only watch the first corner of F1 races 'cos that's where the spills will be <img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_blush.gif border=0 align=middle>... You're born, you keep your head down and you die. If you're lucky... |
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| Author: | 30mike-mike [ 04 Jan 2006, 10:20 ] |
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<img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle>Shame on you! Move over...here, have a beer...<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> "Pilots Without Maintainers are Just Pedestrians With Leather Jackets and Cool Sunglasses." |
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| Author: | ProfessorFinkle [ 05 Jan 2006, 23:21 ] |
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Yeah!!! Hell Yeah!!! Just D@m that was awesome <img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle> I noticed I was drooling half way down wile I was reading it! : ) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death ... I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing! (Sign over the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base Kadena, Japan). |
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